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Ann Mroz

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Former editor Tes, Times Higher Education, NED, trustee

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. 

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. 

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. 

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
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Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Well this has certainly got people talking on here and on LinkedIn today!
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Gates in an interview with the @financialtimes.com doesn’t hold back about Musk’s USAID cuts: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
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Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts
Billionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
‘In 2011, I was a junior official working on SEND reforms, including introducing EHCPs. Because these included a health element, we had to present the idea to Department of Health officials. They laughed at us, and that meeting is seared into my memory’ schoolsweek.co.uk/ditching-ehc...
schoolsweek.co.uk
How ditching EHCPs could mean SEND is better funded
The approach and the incentives that flow from it are ruinous. Here's what we should do instead
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Tom Rees @tomreesjournalist.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
ONS confirms our exclusive story that Ian Diamond has resigned as head of the national statistics body! It came after mounting pressures over the ONS's handling of a collapse in response rates to key household surveys. It had made its unemployment and employment figures useless
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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Anyone who is interested in understanding the judgment the Supreme Court will be delivering today in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers will no doubt find @michaelpforan.bsky.social's excellent overview of the legal issues very useful. knowingius.org/p/sex-in-the...
knowingius.org
Sex in the Supreme Court
A Brief Overview
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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I am reading the new book by the Facebook / Meta whistleblower - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them.
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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is how we were. You see kids today and there’s a reserve in them that’s new.
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
So true! I could almost picture myself in that photo
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Done! Thank you – that is super helpful
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Adding to phone immediately
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🚨NEW: There has been a big spike in schools using funding for disadvantaged pupils to plug budget holes. Our new research reveals that more cash-strapped schools are cutting back on staff, trips and equipment than in 2024⤵️ 🧵
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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Good advice for universities from Akua Reindorf KC www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/many...
timeshighereducation.com
Many UK universities’ trans inclusion policies contravene equality law
Recent cases brought by gender-critical employees show that going beyond the law can easily turn into stepping outside the law, says Akua Reindorf
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Dr Kathryn Webb @drkathrynwebb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The Observer editorial on @sullivan-review.bsky.social: "A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The Observer view on gender data: failure to accurately record biological sex harms us all | Observer editorial
A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures
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Natasha Porter OBE @natashaporter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A few bits here are just bonkers. Firstly the prison population issues are absolutely not because of increases in exclusion. Secondly it is weird to suggest that because there are links between the cohort excluded from school and those committing serious violence we should stop exclusions.
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Bruce has been groomed and looks very handsome indeed
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fine tribute to John Prescott from Tony Blair institute.global/insights/new...
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, and just more interesting stuff. I am finding it a bit boring
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Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Cuts to the AMSP programme for Further Maths. 2 approved Maths schools on pause. Maths courses being shut at universities around the country. It’s not been a great few days for an AI powerhouse……
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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Exclusive: Academy trust which has generated income of more than £12m from phonics product starts “investigation into its tax status” www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173356/... Wandle Learning Trust reveals it should have been registered for VAT, in latest accounts.
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Johnny Rich @johnnyrich.com · 28/01/2025
This is huge: a Russell Group uni making such severe cuts shows the extent of the crisis in HE funding. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
‘I agree that phones have no place in the classroom. It is entirely right that schools take firm action to stop their use, and I know that is what the vast majority of schools already do’: Bridget Phillipson rejects Tory plans to legislate against mobile phones
tes.com
Phillipson dismisses Conservative call for school phone ban law
Education secretary calls the proposals a ‘headline-grabbing gimmick’
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A pleasure. He cheers me up too!
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Even when simple I get an accountant to do it. I am notoriously awful with forms and it alleviates a lot of pain
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Ottie is gorgeous!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future". We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Thank you. He’s not too keen on the brushing
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
And presumably has that name for the same reason
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
For you Cwris I’ll try!
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Freya is very lovely!
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This is Bruce. He’s just had his coat brushed and is looking very handsome
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Hey Jude @judew.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Well look at that! 38 years ago!
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Happy birthday!
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Ha, I thought exactly the same. The resemblance was uncanny
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
So much wonderful, tasty cheese at the Courtyard Dairy in Settle
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
‘Just think what we could achieve if pupils had a seamless curriculum that taught them knowledge and skills in a carefully planned sequence, right through from 3-19’ www.tes.com/magazine/lea...
tes.com
What if...our system was set up as all-through provision?
As part of our ‘What if...’ series, Claire Heald argues there would be multiple academic, pastoral and staffing benefits if the system was set up as an all-through model
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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I can never understand why children's books get left out of "great book" lists. The books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes no-one. They are books for EVERYONE - and if you exclude them, you miss the most important books of all!
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Caroline Barlow @carolinebarlow.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Well done @branwenjeffreys and @BBCBreakfast for profiling the work of Dame Christine Gilbert showing how information about and evaluation of schools is not and should not be driven by Ofsted. #beyondofsted #gilbertreview www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
First look at app-style reports to help parents compare schools
Local projects are under way to create school report cards that could inform Ofsted's national changes.
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Who on here remembers Twizzle, with his extendable arms and legs? How were small children of the 1960s not terrified by him?
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Beautiful sky here in North London before the rain comes down
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
The pics from this first-ever private spacewalk are amazing. It’s an incredible experience but I would find it terrifying. Am I just a big wuss? news.sky.com/video/share-...
news.sky.com
Pictures from the first-ever private spacewalk
Billionaire Jared Isaacman has become the first person to complete a private spacewalk.
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Very interesting
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Mumsnet predictably furious about the new term-time holiday fines but this poster makes a good case
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
This is very good from Jon Coles schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-refor...
schoolsweek.co.uk
These Ofsted reforms won't solve our accountability problems
Superficial changes could lead to untintended consequences while the real issues persist, warns Sir Jon Coles
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Name change is a powerful statement about the trust’s future, says CEO Becks Boomer-Clark www.tes.com/magazine/new...
tes.com
Major MAT changes name to become Lift Schools
CEO Becks Boomer-Clark, says the former Academies Enterprise Trust’s name change is a ‘powerful statement’ about its future
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Of course it is!
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
I found this part of the review astonishing – ‘the role of Ofsted’s governing board was “curiously limited”, highlighting that the chief inspector (or HCMI) was not “wholly accountable” to the board and that it has no control over the watchdog’s budget’ www.tes.com/magazine/new...
tes.com
Ofsted target drove down quality of inspections
Dame Christine Gilbert’s independent review of Ofsted’s actions following the death of Ruth Perry suggests the inspectorate prioritised volume over quality
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Some good advice and I admire Jon’s perseverance
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
A really fascinating read
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Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
I so understand
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